CUSTOMER: I’d like to buy this audiobook.BOOKSELLER: Great.CUSTOMER: Only, I don’t really like this narrator.BOOKSELLER: Oh.CUSTOMER: Do you have a selection of narrators to choose from? Ideally, I’d like Benedict Cumberbatch.

CUSTOMER: Do bookshops have talking books for hire?BOOKSELLER: Well, we have audiobooks that you can buy.CUSTOMER: No, that’s not what I mean. I don’t want a CD. I want a person. Someone who has learnt a book off by heart and will come to my house to read it out to me.

CUSTOMER (buying a copy of Gulliver’s Travels): I’m thinking of going travelling, so I thought I’d give this a read to give me ideas of places to go. He seems to have gone to some really crazy parts of the world!

CUSTOMER (to her friend): What about this book? (holds up a copy of The Hobbit).CUSTOMER: No. I don’t want to read that. It’ll spoil the film.

CUSTOMER: Do you have Harry Potter book seven, part two?BOOKSELLER: Book seven, The Deathly Hallows, is just one volume.CUSTOMER: But the movie has two parts, so there must be a second book! They don’t just make movies from nothing!

(Two girls wander through the Medical section and find a copy of Gray’s Anatomy)GIRL: Oh God, I can’t believe they named that book after the TV show … They’ll do anything to get people to buy books these days!HER FRIEND: Yeah. That’s so, so sad.

CUSTOMER (on the phone): Hi. Do you sell drumsticks?BOOKSELLER: Umm …the kind you eat or the ones you play drums with?CUSTOMER (eagerly): The ones you play drums with. Does that mean you carry them?BOOKSELLER: No, I’m sorry; we don’t have either. I was just curious to know which type you thought a bookshop might have. Try the music shop a couple of miles up the road.

Dan, yah, saya rasa orang ini adalah kolektor buku garis keras.

CUSTOMER: Do you have any books signed by authors who are likely to die very soon? I’d like to make an investment.

Juga pembaca yang sangat ‘mendalami’ bacaannya.

CUSTOMER (to her friend): I only like books that I can really believe happened, you know? Like Twilight.